Evolv-ing Thread

[Rossum]

Lately I'm wondering how hard it would be to Quit vaping?
My nicotine level is down to all most nothing I'm basically just vaping for the habit now.
I used to really like Making my own mods, but even that isn't as interesting any more
The constant hassle of charging batteries, mixing juice & rebuilding atty's becomes a PIA after a while

I think soon enough I'm going to give it a try! I could have one heck of a yard sale, If I can quit

I've heard a number of stories about people who quit vaping, sold all their stuff, and then a six months or a year later, when some stressful situation hit them, were back to smoking. So if you do quit, please do yourself a favor and keep enough stuff that you can easily pick up vaping again if you're ever tempted to smoke.

To me, vaping is less hassle than smoking was, primarily because I don't have go out and find a carton of "my" cigarettes every five days, and because I never get that anxiety that was always associated with opening the last pack from a carton.

 

[SlickWilly]

I've heard a number of stories about people who quit vaping, sold all their stuff, and then a six months or a year later, when some stressful situation hit them, were back to smoking. So if you do quit, please do yourself a favor and keep enough stuff that you can easily pick up vaping again if you're ever tempted to smoke.

To me, vaping is less hassle than smoking was, primarily because I don't have go out and find a carton of "my" cigarettes every five days, and because I never get that anxiety that was always associated with opening the last pack from a carton.

I quit smoking six times, shortest time was a few months up to a couple years and you are right on the money, each time I started again was during a stressful time. Three times I quit cold turkey, the other were once slowly weening while getting acupuncture treatments, once with the patches and then using nic gum, man I used a LOT of gum. Almost each time I started it was going to be just one smoke or for a day or so to get me past bad days, a couple times I thought I would just smoke cigars, you know, and not inhale..... yeah that quickly turned into buying a pack of cigs.

I have no desire to stop vaping, it's like guilt free smoking and I really enjoy it. And I'll freely admit I really enjoyed smoking, if it wasn't harmful I'd still be smoking.

I do agree, if you're going to stop vaping keep some gear and juice just in case.

 

[Steamer861]

I've heard a number of stories about people who quit vaping, sold all their stuff, and then a six months or a year later, when some stressful situation hit them, were back to smoking. So if you do quit, please do yourself a favor and keep enough stuff that you can easily pick up vaping again if you're ever tempted to smoke.

To me, vaping is less hassle than smoking was, primarily because I don't have go out and find a carton of "my" cigarettes every five days, and because I never get that anxiety that was always associated with opening the last pack from a carton.

Good Advise, I will keep a few choice pieces, just incase
Dec 5th will be my fifth year anniversary, as a non smoker, It would be fitting to try & quit vaping then.
For now I will start a reduction period.

I never found smoking a hassle, for me it was easy. Lite it up & .... it out
All ways having a lighter handy was the biggest hassle
Cigarette are readily available every were. With vaping my day has to be planed a head of time, juice, mods, battery life, all have to be anticipated
No chance for spontaneity, I felt freer when I smoked
It was easier to just go about my life, with out this constant preparing my vape supply.

 

[Rossum]

I have no desire to stop vaping, it's like guilt free smoking and I really enjoy it.

Exactly. That plus I know that I turn into an insufferable without my nic.

 

[Steamer861]

I turn into an insufferable without my nic.

Ya! Before my journey of Nic reduction. I would go into with drawl in a bad way!
I would get angry, every thing I tried to do would go wrong & it would aggravate me to no end!
Addiction is a powerful foe! Thats why I took 5 years & reduction in 1mg increments to go from 18 to 2. It was the only way I could reduce, with out with drawl symptoms.
Even though I use more juice & vape bigger clouds now, @ 2mg it's still an insignificant amount of Nic, compared to when I smoked or just started to Vape.

Now at work if I run out, I find my self instinctively reaching for my empty mod, but don't feel the nic with drawl like when I smoked

I honestly think Now, I could finally beat this life long Nic addiction

 

[mikepetro]

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[dwcraig1]

 

[dwcraig1]

I'm liking my Anita way more than expected. Shoving a round tooth pick into the bottle's tube allows for less messy cap removal. I read about a lot of folks complaining about battery life, seems fine to me but the battery gauge is most likely the source of the complaints. The battery bar showed half when I measured with a meter and that read 3.95 volts.
I can't seem to get use to the Idea that juice runs out the atty's air holes when on it's side, that is the only leaking so far.
Now for what I like most, I carry my #1 mod in my front pants pocket and this one is super light.
Drone arrives today, I can't see carrying that in my pocket, at least not more than once.

 

[cigatron]

My front pocket mods are Frankenskull 1x 18650 plastic box squonkers with RDAs. Super lightweight and one of the smallest out there. The downside is I have to vape the juice well dry before pocketing them or I'll look like I had an "accident" in my pants. It's not much of an inconvenience though because I typically chain vape 8-10 pulls per vape session anyway. None of my DNAs make good pocket mods so I use them mostly while traveling and at home.

 

[cigatron]

I read about a lot of folks complaining about battery life, seems fine to me but the battery gauge is most likely the source of the complaints. The battery bar showed half when I measured with a meter and that read 3.95 volts.

Should be closer to 3.8v at 50%?

 

[dwcraig1]

So with getting the Anita up and running I needed a cell. I took it from a DNA40 mod that was in operation.
I have one of those I-4 chargers, it can charge 1 cell at 750 mah. After a couple of hours in the charger it got really hot, not too hot to touch but way hotter than any battery that I've seen. Bound for hazardous waste as soon as I discharge it. I guess it's about time to get some new ones, its been a while. (LG he4)

 

[dwcraig1]

I know that my Drone is 6 blocks down the street at the local PO, but it will be like 8 - 9 hours till they bring it. The atty too.

 

[dwcraig1]

4 new LG HD2's on the way

 

[muzichead]

I've heard a number of stories about people who quit vaping, sold all their stuff, and then a six months or a year later, when some stressful situation hit them, were back to smoking. So if you do quit, please do yourself a favor and keep enough stuff that you can easily pick up vaping again if you're ever tempted to smoke.

To me, vaping is less hassle than smoking was, primarily because I don't have go out and find a carton of "my" cigarettes every five days, and because I never get that anxiety that was always associated with opening the last pack from a carton.

I frequent this thread almost daily for the coffee as Ms Tibs does such an outstanding job, (Mike does pretty good and has his moments as well), but back to this post. I think for some this is very good advise but wasn't the case for me and certainly hope not for most...

As an ex-vaper, Jan 2017, I took my last vape and sold everything off and did this without hesitation. I was a 2.5 pk/day guy for going on 40+ yrs prior to picking up vaping and tried to quit several times but was unsuccessful to say the least. Vaping was the only thing I'd ever tried that let me think that this could be the step that makes me quit everything altogether. It was a relatively quick venture as it was just shy of 6 yrs total but I vaped 0 nic for over 2 yrs once I found the Reo Grand would satisfy my daily habit!! I went from 12-15mg to 6mg almost overnight and from 6mg to 0mg within 6 months.

I found myself in the last year of vaping finally able to walk around without my Reo on my person or in my hand for the 1st time and that spoke volumes to me and spent the next few months testing myself in situations as to whether this was the final step and on Jan 9th, 2017 realized what I thought I could never happen to me and it was the last time I would ever have to pick up my Reo or anything else vape related and now I' going on 21 months next week vape free...

I can honestly say that I have never had the want, need, or desire to ever pick up anything vape or smoke related in that time period and am free of the monkey on my back, as they say, and feel healthy once again in my life and there's no looking back for me. With that said I will agree that it is as anything in life and is very much a YMMV case by case situation but I never in a million years would've ever thought I would be vape / smoke free ever and yet here I am!!

eta... I certainly couldn't have done all this without ECF, Reos Mods, and some of the best people in the world here on this forum...

 

[BillW50]

Ahh... muzichead... but I quit smoking cold turkey in 1981 and continued to 1991. After I looked back at 10 years without smoking, I asked myself if it was worth it? And I decided no it wasn't and started smoking again. And the times I did quit, I continued to have dreams that I was still smoking which doesn't help at all.

I don't know, I think it depends on the person. Could I quit vaping and do I have enough willpower to do it? I am positive I do. But will I be happy? Absolutely not.

Heck last November I was hospitalized for 9 days and I wasn't expecting to end up there at all. I just went to the doctor to get some antibiotics and then come home. I didn't bring any vape with me since I figured I'd be home quickly anyway. Instead they said I needed immediate surgery and hauled my .... 100 miles by ambulance to a larger hospital.

So I was coping pretty well in the hospital. But if they wouldn't stop me from sneaking out and buying a pack of smokes, I am pretty sure I would of. But dang security was really tight there so I didn't try it. Plus I didn't see any stores looking out of the windows or gas stations. It would have been a long walk anyway in my condition.

 

[Steamer861]

I frequent this thread almost daily for the coffee as Ms Tibs does such an outstanding job, (Mike does pretty good and has his moments as well), but back to this post. I think for some this is very good advise but wasn't the case for me and certainly hope not for most...

As an ex-vaper, Jan 2017, I took my last vape and sold everything off and did this without hesitation. I was a 2.5 pk/day guy for going on 40+ yrs prior to picking up vaping and tried to quit several times but was unsuccessful to say the least. Vaping was the only thing I'd ever tried that let me think that this could be the step that makes me quit everything altogether. It was a relatively quick venture as it was just shy of 6 yrs total but I vaped 0 nic for over 2 yrs once I found the Reo Grand would satisfy my daily habit!! I went from 12-15mg to 6mg almost overnight and from 6mg to 0mg within 6 months.

I found myself in the last year of vaping finally able to walk around without my Reo on my person or in my hand for the 1st time and that spoke volumes to me and spent the next few months testing myself in situations as to whether this was the final step and on Jan 9th, 2017 realized what I thought I could never happen to me and it was the last time I would ever have to pick up my Reo or anything else vape related and now I' going on 21 months next week vape free...

I can honestly say that I have never had the want, need, or desire to ever pick up anything vape or smoke related in that time period and am free of the monkey on my back, as they say, and feel healthy once again in my life and there's no looking back for me. With that said I will agree that it is as anything in life and is very much a YMMV case by case situation but I never in a million years would've ever thought I would be vape / smoke free ever and yet here I am!!

eta... I certainly couldn't have done all this without ECF, Reos Mods, and some of the best people in the world here on this forum...

Thanks for this post It's an inspiration for me!
I see no point in vaping zero nic juice & am hoping my last step down from 2 to 0, isn't going to be my undoing?
A lot of folks see them selves vaping for ever, for me I want it to be the tool that finally gets the "Monkey" off my back.

I to agree a relapse to Smoking, is going to be VERY unlikely as I know how hard it is to rid your self of the habit once you start again.
Thanks again for the inspirational Post

 

[awsum140]

I guess that if you feel you're actually ready quitting vaping is the obvious next step. Keep in mind that what your conscious mind says may be in conflict with what your subconscious mind wants and the subconscious usually wins that kind of battle. If you do, be prudent and keep all of your vape gear for a while, then wino the collection down to your favorites and keep them for a long time, just in case.

I smoked for almost 50 years, one, two and three packs a day at times. I quit multiple times using Nicotrol, the patch, never liked the gum, and sheer will power but always had something crop up that put me back smoking again.

Now, after six years plus of vaping, I really doubt I'd go back to cigarettes again even with a highly stressful situation in my life, which I actually am going through right now. I'm at the point where I can smell cigarette smoke on clothes I haven't worn in a while, like my business suits, and can't stand that smell. It lingers, to me, even after laundering or dry cleaning. That, by itself, keeps me away from cigarettes. Actually I should give those suits away, they're way too big for me now.

Vaping satisfies my hand-mouth addiction and the other rituals of smoking albeit with substitute rituals. Charging batteries, making sure I have two mods when I leave the house, building atomizers and mixing liquids have become the substitute for going to the store of a couple of packs or a carton. I don't mind that at all and my lungs thank me for it.

 

[cigatron]

After smoking for 20yrs I quit for 10yrs while competing in mountain bike racing. A knee blowout (broken cruciate tendon actually) took me out of that so I went on with my competitive nature and took up car racing. Finances took me out of that so I got depressed and took up smoking again. Religion helped me tremendously with kicking the habit and all was well for many years until the church got divisive and I once again took up smoking due to depression. I also lost faith in the human race to act morally when put to the test which furthered my desire to slowly kill myself with cigs. Along came vaping, better vaping gear I should say, and I never looked back at cigs. I am happily vaping now and down to very low nic levels, low enough I could quit entirely without withdrawals; my subconscious may have other ideas however. I think often about quiting but I soon get over it.

Cig

 

[muzichead]

Ahh... muzichead... but I quit smoking cold turkey in 1981 and continued to 1991. After I looked back at 10 years without smoking, I asked myself if it was worth it? And I decided no it wasn't and started smoking again. And the times I did quit, I continued to have dreams that I was still smoking which doesn't help at all.

I don't know, I think it depends on the person. Could I quit vaping and do I have enough willpower to do it? I am positive I do. But will I be happy? Absolutely not.

Heck last November I was hospitalized for 9 days and I wasn't expecting to end up there at all. I just went to the doctor to get some antibiotics and then come home. I didn't bring any vape with me since I figured I'd be home quickly anyway. Instead they said I needed immediate surgery and hauled my .... 100 miles by ambulance to a larger hospital.

So I was coping pretty well in the hospital. But if they wouldn't stop me from sneaking out and buying a pack of smokes, I am pretty sure I would of. But dang security was really tight there so I didn't try it. Plus I didn't see any stores looking out of the windows or gas stations. It would have been a long walk anyway in my condition.

Thats really a shame that a quick visit to the doctor ended up like it did but glad to hear you made it out ok... I tried to smoke a cigarette after vaping for about 4 months and got 2 drags into it and started choking vehemently which led to vomiting for the next few minutes. It was one of the worst experiences in my life... To this day if I am out somewhere and have to walk through a so called smoking section, it is usually the last time I make an appearance at said establishment!! If I'm out somewhere and someone sits next to me or approaches me that smokes, I have to either get up and move or just leave altogether. I am so turned off by what cigarettes smell like that I had to change quite a bit of my life because I get nauseous just smelling it... I do feel I'm better off though for quitting both actually.

Thanks for this post It's an inspiration for me!
I see no point in vaping zero nic juice & am hoping my last step down from 2 to 0, isn't going to be my undoing?
A lot of folks see them selves vaping for ever, for me I want it to be the tool that finally gets the "Monkey" off my back.

I to agree a relapse to Smoking, is going to be VERY unlikely as I know how hard it is to rid your self of the habit once you start again.
Thanks again for the inspirational Post

Let's hope it helps you get over that hump as it did for me.

I guess that if you feel you're actually ready quitting vaping is the obvious next step. Keep in mind that what your conscious mind says may be in conflict with what your subconscious mind wants and the subconscious usually wins that kind of battle. If you do, be prudent and keep all of your vape gear for a while, then wino the collection down to your favorites and keep them for a long time, just in case.

I smoked for almost 50 years, one, two and three packs a day at times. I quit multiple times using Nicotrol, the patch, never liked the gum, and sheer will power but always had something crop up that put me back smoking again.

Now, after six years plus of vaping, I really doubt I'd go back to cigarettes again even with a highly stressful situation in my life, which I actually am going through right now. I'm at the point where I can smell cigarette smoke on clothes I haven't worn in a while, like my business suits, and can't stand that smell. It lingers, to me, even after laundering or dry cleaning. That, by itself, keeps me away from cigarettes. Actually I should ive those suits away, they're way too big for me now.

Vaping satisfies my hand-mouth addiction and the other rituals of smoking albeit with substitute rituals. Charging batteries, making sure I have two mods when I leave the house, building atomizers and mixing liquids have become the substitute for going to the store of a couple of packs or a carton. I don't mind that at all and my ungs thank me for it.

I think when I realized that all vaping was doing was to help feed the hand to mouth part of the addiction is when the light bulb went on and I realized I could live perfectly fine without it!! Ultimately though, if vaping is what keeps someone from smoking I have no problem with that at all and wish only the best for everyone.